Almost ending

[ausare]

寝る前に…
ねるまえに…
Neru maeni...
Before going to sleep...
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Crazy assignment deadline period ended on Tuesday. Went out with Jay and thesuperette.

Finally watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Why is Tom Felton so hot? His suit-wearing silhouette made me swoon. Hard. And is it just me, or does anyone else think that Daniel Radcliffe is better as a comedic actor than a dramatic actor? His acting, honestly, I think, has improved only by a bit when compared to the older Harry Potter movies. It only felt natural to me when Harry ingested the Felix Felixis and was being kind of high-on-high. That part was pretty funny. Especially when he started talking about Aragog's pincers. Also, Katie under the hex? OMG SUPER CREEPY. Was afraid that I'll get nightmares. Which was why it was weird that the bathroom fight with Draco getting hexed with Sectumsempra wasn't as gory-and-bloody as I thought. If Katie's part could be that freaky, why didn't Draco at least show some torn-shirt-and-torn-skin? And Harry should have done more for him instead of blanking out, unless I remembered the original book wrong. Oh, and every time Professor Slughorn said, "Merlin's beard!", I kept seeing Colin Morgan's beard/mustache. Tell me I'm not the only one who experienced this. I can't even read a Harry Potter fanfiction and get through the swearing of "Merlin's balls!" without getting a mental whiplash and think of Merlin fanfictions instead. The woes of overlapping fandoms.

Went to the Singapore Science Centre after the movie because there was a Da Vinci exhibition. Thanks to him being the role model for my secondary school and also the topic for my cross-disciplinary subject (Arts Appreciation) back in polytechnic, I knew more about the man than just 'the guy who painted Mona Lisa'. Still, the exhibition was awesome. It wasn't the first time I saw his journal sketches (and they should have included the ones he did on hydraulic studies. Those were amazing. It's a pity those weren't there) but seeing them all blown up and in-your-face? It really impresses upon the point — nay, the fact — that the man really is a genius. His medical/anatomy study sketches? I have no words. It's beyond medical, the way he drew the twisting muscles and tendons, the interlocking bone structure, and the complex and intricate web of blood vessels. The fact that he used all the things he learned from different fields of studies on each thing he does — on some half-done paintings, you can see the base sketch is very medical-ish anatomic. It just made the overall painting of the human body that much more realistic — is sheer brilliance. I have no words.

Then we went home, and that night? I had almost 13 hours of sleep after having days where I could get only one hour of shut-eye. IT WAS BLISS.

My Sims 3 broke after I updated it (stupidly, unknowingly) without getting the crack for the new patch. Because I didn't buy the original version, shut up. So I lost Sims!Arthur and Sims!Merlin. Sad. And after I got them married, too. But! After days of installing and uninstalling over and over again, I finally got things running perfectly. Am not creating any fandom Sims this time. I'll try to get a hang of the game first before doing anything ambitious. Um. It still ended up looking pretty ambitious though.

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Finally, after so long, I got to watch Stardust. It was the perfect example of a book/novel adaptation done right. I loved it. Another thing I liked about the story, both in the movie and the novel, is that the relationship between Tristan and Yvaine developed slow enough to be natural, even though it could have been the typical 'boy hates girl, girl hates boy, and near the end they realise they had mistaken their EPIC LOVE as hate'. They learn about each other slowly, through an unexpected journey, and things just grew from there rather than suddenly seeing what was meant to be and desperately falling into each other's arms the next second. It was as much as a journey for Tristan to learn of the greater world outside and to gain maturity and his legacy as it was a journey to learn about what a real relationship is. I want to read the novel again. Some day, perhaps. (Although the ending in the novel was a touch angsty because the only way to gain immortality was through the literal consumption the heart of a star and not a metaphor of the star giving her heart because of love, so Yvaine lived forever after Tristan passed and looked over the stars because there weren't anymore Babylon Candles in existence. Or travelling by the Candle was only possible on the ground and not in the heavens. I can't really remember. Oh wait, it's in my old blog, and her injured leg was never healed.)

Am waiting for this trimester to be officially over. I still have two examinations to get through, then I can go back to work, and have my (pathetic one-week) break, when I can hopefully catch up with books, fandom, and my many television series.

Um. I'm having a very bad feeling that one of my friends from uni is starting to place her boyfriend before us girlfriends. She's already asking if he could come along to our class/girls' post-exam movie outing this coming Monday. I hope it's not going where I think it's going. Oh, please, no D:

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以上、Chii です。

Comments

[lausi-gm.livejournal.com]

Just a quick one, Hun!
CONGRATS on surviving another mad deadline! *pats your back*

CONGRATS on surviving first part of the Half Blood Prince. I loved the books dearly, but I gave up on the movies after part four

CONGRATS on getting back into the SIMS world (and for the wisdom to take it slowly this time round... but I'm majorly p....d that I didn't get to see MARRIED Arthur/Merlin sims *is demanding you create them quickly and have them married and have sex on all available solid surfaces...* (Does SIMS allow sex?!?!? *mind boggles*.... *if so, better not tell me...* ...*might get stuck in mad-porn-sims-world for rest of her sorry life*)

CONGRATS on finding a perfect book/novel adaption. That's pretty rare.

*off now to rest hurting back*

(which I should have done BEFORE spending hours tweakening ITNC chapter 18 just to post it tonight)

Hugs

C.

[ausare.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Although it's partly (mostly!) my fault for leaving everything to the last minute and losing sleep over deadlines =\

Well, I gave up on the movie after the 3rd one. It's a good thing they didn't use that director again. Although, David Yates can't compare to Chris Columbus. I heard my my friend that Columbus wanted to direct the 2 parts of the last movie, but Yates wanted it also and sort-of "refused" to let Columbus direct DH. Bummer. It would have been SO MUCH BETTER.

I'm annoyed that I lost my Sims!Arthur and Sims!Merlin :( They were so adorable :( I did try to let them have sex woohoo (as what the game calls it) on different surfaces but I've only gotten them to do it on the bed. Apparently there are (limited) other places but I haven't made them and NOW I'VE LOST THEM D: But anyway. You can't see them woohoo so there's no mental image you can get there XD

I am very sceptical about book-into-film adaptations, especially good ones (I felt really cheated for The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons ho hum), so Stardust was a very good respite from all the FAIL these days.

And what happened to your back?? Hope you feel better after a good night's sleep! *hugs!*

[lovryu.livejournal.com]

TOM FELTON IS SO EFFING HOT SRSLY.

[ausare.livejournal.com]

I was shrieking when he appeared on the screen, I tell you. And for half an hour after the movie ended.

THEY SHOULD RENAME THE MOVIE:
DRACO AND THE HOTNESS OF TOM FELTON
XDDD